-If- I bought a license to the music, it is not "destroyed" by scratching the disk. -If- I bought the media, I can do with its fysical properties what I like. Like copying.
"But dear god I want a SEPARATE PROGRAM for my word processing. I want my web browser to browse the web. I want my file manager to manage my files. I want my word processor to process words."
I hear ya, but let me try to explain why it IS important.
Remote working.
Our company has three offices, and has loads of people working from other locations. Clients, homes, you name it. We obviously can (and do) utilize Terminal Servers, to serve complete Office Desktops to remote people, but its not always practical. First of, Terminal Servers are stil a Biatch to setup and run reliably. Second sometimes they dont work, ports are blocked by large corp clients inert firewall people, client software doesnt run, whatever.
There are solutions: plan ahead, buy rediculously expensive and overpowered laptops, send 20MB PowerPoint presentations on CRD's via FedEx, threaten the head of -insert American Airline here- Maintenance Training to release your suitcase with documents form customs early (yeah, pre-911) or there wont BE any training.
So in short, I want to VIEW, EDIT, and SAVE my data, be it text, graphics, or numbers or a combination, from EVERYWHERE. And Terminal Servers are just a crap middle ware solution, for a problem that can be avoided by proper a web-editing app.
""we" the consumers are being treated as criminals, is because some of the "we" are acting like criminals"
No it isnt, its called "greed" and its contra-productive. You just said you are no criminal, but you are treated as one. So the "We" is all of us except you eh? Well dont be so ridiculously righteous. Most people are actually LIKE YOU.
to quoteth another reply who said it excellent:
"I'm starting to buy less and less PC games because of the crap I have to deal with. Do you hear that, developers? That is the sound of lost sales."
Look, back in the eighties, when the net started, we had visions of software and content being distributed instantly. Hell, by 1889 all drivers I needed for my job were.
Its a bloody rotten shame that most software and media STILL needs to be purchased at the local store, or send to you on a snailmail plastic disk.
Apparently its harder to sell software and content digitally, then it is to put Rovers on Mars.
Well something is telling me people are not trying hard enough.
Instead there is tremendous efford in combatting COPIENG... WTF?!? The digital revolution is ABOUT copying, instead they make it about PREVENTING to copy it..
Somewhere there is a whole "1984" disturbing feeling associated with that too...
Like, Fight Terrorism! Give up Freedoms! Fight Piracy! Give up Freedoms! So we can protect erm, money! Somehow I dont buy it...
Because, when you mention "enhancing" humans, people throw in the "we are not God" argument, and next before you know it, some religious fanatic idiot forbids stemcell research and endangers science.
"They had a thing in ancestry.com not too long ago that shows W is also related to Collin Powell as well and they are both descendants of "Longshanks" of Braveheart fame"
"no one ever wants to decrease IP regulation to harmonize with some other country"
Keep talking about "IP".. and that will NEVER change.
The crux is this: we all bought in this phantom "Information Economy" in the 90's, completely bypassing the fact that the real money is made with SERVICES, not INFORMATION.
This whole "IT revolution" meme needs to be shot. And before that happens, stuff is likely to get far worse first.
Perhaps. I have a problem with intangible stuff like music being treated as a "property" anyway.
You know, Im going deaf in one ear, hopefully they can replace that function with a really cool hearing aid. Lets call it the iAid. Lets say it has 40TB memory. Its the year 2040 model.
I never said the user shoud not ask for a receipt;-)
I would. But I loose receipts sometimes, and I find it all but fair, that if the RIAA wants to "sell" intangible stuff like music, its their problem to keep the records.
I can -buy- a lifetime irrevocable licence to -it-.
Not a plastic scratchy waste product. Not a shitty format digistream for my iPod.
A -full- perpetual, amd fully paid up licence please. And THEN, ill pay.
Ill burn my own dern copies. Ill mediashift too my own dern iPod. I just want a -licence-, and a one-time access to a 100% lossless audio format. And the burden of knowing Im a licensee, should be given to the RIAA. I fully expect THEM to proove Im a licensee, and as such can copy YOUR cd if mine gets lost.
Slashdot Mirror
What -law- do you break in the US by putting this info on a webpage?
Wether it is "right" or "smart" (I think neither) is a completely other question.
"/Dread"
-If- I bought a license to the music, it is not "destroyed" by scratching the disk. -If- I bought the media, I can do with its fysical properties what I like. Like copying.
Make up your mind Jack.
"/Dread"
But not on that corner.. and not in that park.. and certainly not in temmporary political grafitty.
"/Dread"
Forward the spam.. send the spam, send it again, and again and again, untill election time...
"/Dread"
Not to start a euro flame war or anything, but "If your not with us, your agains us" comes to mind.
Next you will hear Ballmer refer to UN software standards as "old-tech".
"/Dread"
"But dear god I want a SEPARATE PROGRAM for my word processing. I want my web browser to browse the web. I want my file manager to manage my files. I want my word processor to process words."
I hear ya, but let me try to explain why it IS important.
Remote working.
Our company has three offices, and has loads of people working from other locations. Clients, homes, you name it.
We obviously can (and do) utilize Terminal Servers, to serve complete Office Desktops to remote people, but its not always practical. First of, Terminal Servers are stil a Biatch to setup and run reliably. Second sometimes they dont work, ports are blocked by large corp clients inert firewall people, client software doesnt run, whatever.
There are solutions: plan ahead, buy rediculously expensive and overpowered laptops, send 20MB PowerPoint presentations on CRD's via FedEx, threaten the head of -insert American Airline here- Maintenance Training to release your suitcase with documents form customs early (yeah, pre-911) or there wont BE any training.
So in short, I want to VIEW, EDIT, and SAVE my data, be it text, graphics, or numbers or a combination, from EVERYWHERE. And Terminal Servers are just a crap middle ware solution, for a problem that can be avoided by proper a web-editing app.
peace
"/Dread"
.. and handed over to the FSF. Bwahahaha
"/Dread"
There is a flaw in you post. It works better with "and" instead of "or"
"/Dread"
Ah,
but all ethics origin from practicality...
"/Dread"
""we" the consumers are being treated as criminals, is because some of the "we" are acting like criminals"
No it isnt, its called "greed" and its contra-productive. You just said you are no criminal, but you are treated as one. So the "We" is all of us except you eh? Well dont be so ridiculously righteous. Most people are actually LIKE YOU.
to quoteth another reply who said it excellent:
"I'm starting to buy less and less PC games because of the crap I have to deal with. Do you hear that, developers? That is the sound of lost sales."
Look, back in the eighties, when the net started, we had visions of software and content being distributed instantly. Hell, by 1889 all drivers I needed for my job were.
Its a bloody rotten shame that most software and media STILL needs to be purchased at the local store, or send to you on a snailmail plastic disk.
Apparently its harder to sell software and content digitally, then it is to put Rovers on Mars.
Well something is telling me people are not trying hard enough.
Instead there is tremendous efford in combatting COPIENG... WTF?!? The digital revolution is ABOUT copying, instead they make it about PREVENTING to copy it..
Somewhere there is a whole "1984" disturbing feeling associated with that too...
Like, Fight Terrorism! Give up Freedoms! Fight Piracy! Give up Freedoms! So we can protect erm, money! Somehow I dont buy it...
"/Dread"
Because, when you mention "enhancing" humans, people throw in the "we are not God" argument, and next before you know it, some religious fanatic idiot forbids stemcell research and endangers science.
Oh.. wait..
"/Dread"
Perhaps the SAMBA team should consider registering in China...
Isnt that irony? "China" The land of the free.. (from copyright and patents)
"/Dread"
As I see it,
the Disney Imagery is largely stolen fropm European scenery when good ole Walt traveled Spain and Germany and elsewhere.
All those nifty little steep castles? Moorish towers?
Stolen from the collective European public legacy. Pay up. Already. Oh and that cute little fish/woman? Obviously stolen from copenhagen..
"Dread"
From the freerepublic website:
"They had a thing in ancestry.com not too long ago that shows W is also related to Collin Powell as well and they are both descendants of "Longshanks" of Braveheart fame"
Thanks!
"/Dread"
This makes the "abused" Katie look like a fraud and a liar, how does that "help the childeren"?
She puts herself right in the corner with Michael Jackson sueers, Monica Lewinsky and Rebecca Loos.
All these "reliable" people.
"/Dread"
your ideas own YOU!
"/Dread"
"no one ever wants to decrease IP regulation to harmonize with some other country"
Keep talking about "IP".. and that will NEVER change.
The crux is this: we all bought in this phantom "Information Economy" in the 90's, completely bypassing the fact that the real money is made with SERVICES, not INFORMATION.
This whole "IT revolution" meme needs to be shot. And before that happens, stuff is likely to get far worse first.
"/Dread"
Oh I get it,
so its the sysadmins fault for there being no 48 hour days needed to secure and patch windows systems?
"/Dread"
The problem here is short an mid term thinking.. I know.. if the ROI isnt six months today, people think its finanially dangerous.
But MS file formats are like a racket, sure if you are the only one who refuses to pays the fee, you get your kneecap broken.
But if we ALL have switched the jokes on them! ha! Too many knees!
"/Dread"
So because my car is leased, I have to read "Volkswagen" every time?
How many times a day should I do that?
"/Dread"
Perhaps. I have a problem with intangible stuff like music being treated as a "property" anyway.
You know, Im going deaf in one ear, hopefully they can replace that function with a really cool hearing aid. Lets call it the iAid. Lets say it has 40TB memory. Its the year 2040 model.
Can I still visit a concert?
"/Dread"
I never said the user shoud not ask for a receipt ;-)
I would. But I loose receipts sometimes, and I find it all but fair, that if the RIAA wants to "sell" intangible stuff like music, its their problem to keep the records.
"/Dread"
"because it is IE's default"
Dont underestimate the power that is "IE default"
"/Dread"
I can -buy- a lifetime irrevocable licence to -it-.
Not a plastic scratchy waste product. Not a shitty format digistream for my iPod.
A -full- perpetual, amd fully paid up licence please. And THEN, ill pay.
Ill burn my own dern copies. Ill mediashift too my own dern iPod. I just want a -licence-, and a one-time access to a 100% lossless audio format. And the burden of knowing Im a licensee, should be given to the RIAA. I fully expect THEM to proove Im a licensee, and as such can copy YOUR cd if mine gets lost.
"This music was made for you and me"
"/Dread"
Dont be a fool,
can I skip reading "Adidas" when I put on my sneakers?
"/Dread"